York | Archive | 2005 | January
STUDENTS and staff at York St John College are celebrating after securing £4 million to provide arts facilities for the 21st century. more...
I'M still reeling from the shock of it all. It was all so sudden and will take me a while to get over. more...
Beautifully written Dickensian tale about abandoned brother and sister Joe and Annie. more...
A young dinosaur, Talon, is separated from her pack when a volcano erupts. more...
CONN IGGULDEN'S brilliant Emperor series marches on with our hero Julius Caesar conquering Spain and then tackling the tribes of Gaul. more...
Debut spy novel from the creator of TV series Spooks. A secret agent is trained to try to think of every possible outcome and eventuality. Who could have guessed that a bureaucratic error would send two men to the same `cover' job, working in a shabby photo-processing booth, where each must keep his real identity secret from the other, while awaiting orders. more...
Scott Singer is a devious PR genius - the kind who can lure a bunch of environmentally-conscious women students to a remote Pacific island and persuade them to strip off for the cameras in the belief that they are protesting about the threat posed by developers to a colony of rare seals. In fact, he's been hired by those very developers to drum up publicity for their new beach resort. more...
Gina Parkinson finds that there is more to bamboo than sticks used as plant props. more...
A NUMBER of readers in Escrick have asked what we thought of the Garden Centre at Osgodby. This was the spur that set us to find out! The venue is easy to find. Located on the A63 about half a mile from the A19. more...
FANCY a walk on the mild side? Like to pace your pints or saunter between sups? Well here's your chance to get fitter with Black Sheep Bitter (enough already - Ed). more...
I'M still reeling from the shock of it all. It was all so sudden and will take me a while to get over. more...
As we drove towards the Dales, the rain came down, it just got wetter and wetter until by Masham the wipers were in monsoon mode, plus the wind was up. more...
WE had some visitors from Warwickshire last week to play badminton here. As they all snaked past the Odeon with the county's name on their backs, I inquired where their destination was. more...
LEONARD Clarke shows a keen grasp of history (Letters, January 25). Guy Fawkes was indeed executed for plotting against leaders who disregarded the will and welfare of the people, namely the witch-burner James I and his slimy ministers. more...
I WAS very interested to read your article "Beyond The Call Of Duty" but surprised by the reaction of the North Yorkshire Chamber of Commerce (January 10). more...
IN a letter received by Osbaldwick Parish Council from Peter Evely, head of network management at City of York Council, he is wrong in assuming that the parish council wished to discuss with him the Traffic Management Act 2004. more...
Last Thursday (January 20), common sense prevailed at a planning committee as the decision was taken to quash plans to demolish two fine houses and a bungalow, and for them to be replaced by two blocks of flats at a Tadcaster Road site opposite the delightful single-storey gate house of the National Trust. more...
WHY does Hugh Bayley, in his defence of ID cards, give special mention to the "billions" of pounds of benefit fraud that the cards will help cut (January 21)? more...
SITTING here in Goa, India, my mind frequently travels back to York, my beloved home for nearly 20 years. more...
I CAN understand this type of structure down at the Knavesmire but surely not within the Eye of York. It would be a blight on the skyline for many. more...
WITH all of the campaigns over signs, lampposts and CCTV blocking the view of the Minster, and the Coppergate scandal, I cannot believe that the thought would have ever crossed anyone's mind to install a 54-metre wheel. more...
RE the proposed "York Eye" (January 26). In your words it "would dwarf nearby Clifford's Tower and be almost as high as York Minster". more...
POOR Tower Gardens. Not only does it have to put up with regular flooding, invasion by geese and being covered with new tarmac routes for cycles and pedestrians, now it is to host York's answer to the London Eye. more...
Rachel Lacy tests her mettle as a Viking before the 20th Jorvik festival gets underway next week. more...
A DRUG addict endangered the lives of all the passengers on a York to London express by breaking into its cabs and tampering with the controls, a court heard. more...
"THIS email is received just before the carbon copy killer strikes. So far every victim has received an identical email to this." more...
THE High Court is expected to decide next month on a legal challenge to the proposed redevelopment of York's Barbican Centre. more...
SUPERMARKET staff ditched their usual uniforms to boost the Red Cross tsunami appeal. more...
A SELF-CONFESSED pagan is displaying a piece of sculpture at York Minster which features her own blood. more...
PETER Benton walked out of Terry's for the final time after 18 years at the chocolate factory, saddened, but also looking forward to a new job - at another York confectionery firm. more...
A YORK City Knights player has been banned following a failed drugs test. more...
YOUNGSTERS at a York primary school have been getting their hands on history. more...
SIX shots of scotch cost a York publican almost £4,000 - after he was convicted of selling customers a cheaper brand spirit from a Bells Whisky bottle. more...
STUDENTS and staff at York St John College are celebrating after securing £4 million to provide arts facilities for the 21st century. more...
YORK'S slimmers shed more than 14,000 pounds last year - the equivalent of a fire engine of fat. more...
BAD citizenship is hampering attempts to keep York terraced streets tidy as many householders fail to move their cars for council cleaning. more...
Sir David Frost has interviewed them all, from Nixon to Clinton, Noel Coward to Nelson Mandela, reports Charles Hutchinson. Now he wants to hear questions from an audience in York. more...
In the crazy world of television, a simple string of words, often proclaimed in a flippant manner, can quite easily cost you your career and reputation. more...
Just for a change, I'd love to sample a real stinker of a wine, one that I could slate to high heaven. Alas I have no recent memory of a wine that was any less than drinkable. more...
Saturday, January 29, 2005 more...
Don't you just love those three little phrase `kids go free'? more...
A YORK City Knights player has been banned following a failed drugs test. more...
YORK City Knights are facing an early season props worry with one banned and another looking at a potentially lengthy injury lay-off. more...
YORK City Knights kick off their season on Sunday, February 13 with a massive Northern Rail Cup fixture away to favourites Castleford. more...
I WOULD like to congratulate Knavesmire Harriers Running Club on their excellent promotion of the Brass Monkey Half Marathon. more...
I AM glad that York City Football Club's ground has changed its name. more...
ANYBODY who has followed the fortunes of York City over the last few years would know precisely why the sponsorship deal with Nestlé Rowntree is such a good one. more...
ERIC Ransome's comments, (Evening Press, January 22), about the York City sponsorship arrangement with Nestlé Rowntree are annoying. more...
COME on Mr Ransome and Mr Lickley, let's not get the hankies and floral tributes out just yet, please (Evening Press, Saturday, January 22). more...
CASS the family could be the new game at Fulford Golf Club, whose members are revelling in an historic chip off the old block. more...
YORK City Knights are facing an early season props worry with one banned and another looking at a potentially lengthy injury lay-off. more...
YORK City Knights kick off their season on Sunday, February 13 with a massive Northern Rail Cup fixture away to favourites Castleford. more...
VETERAN campaigner Paul Groves is relishing his switch from centre midfield to centre-half and hopes it will play a part in York City's road to recovery. more...
ALICE Sunderland was York City Baths Club's only medaliist at the Scottish Short Course Championships in Glasgow. more...
YORK Martial Arts Academy warmed up for tomorrow's English Kickboxing Championships in Derby with a handsome medal haul at the Wakefield Open. more...
What have Chelsea got in common with York City? more...
ALICE Sunderland was York City Baths Club's only medaliist at the Scottish Short Course Championships in Glasgow. more...
VETERAN campaigner Paul Groves is relishing his switch from centre midfield to centre-half and hopes it will play a part in York City's road to recovery. more...
IT is hard to imagine that any future FA Cup semi-finalist will ever suffer from coal dust on the lungs when they hang up their Adidas Predator boots. more...
Sir David Frost has interviewed them all, from Nixon to Clinton, Noel Coward to Nelson Mandela, reports Charles Hutchinson. Now he wants to hear questions from an audience in York. more...
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